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VIVEKACŪDĀMAŅI
of Samsara whose waves are birth and death, and firmly
established2 in Brahman as thy own essence, be blessed.
[1With Ib-Instead of with the gross, subtle, and causal bodics. in
Established etc.-By our very nature we are ever identified with
Brahman, but through ignorance we think we are limited and so forth.]
अत्रानात्मन्यहमिति मतिर्बन्ध एषोऽस्य पुंसः
प्राप्तोऽज्ञानाज्जननमरणक्लेशसंपातहेतुः ।
येनैवायं वपुरिदमसत्सत्यमित्यात्मबुद्धया
पुष्यत्युक्षत्यवति विषयैस्तन्तुभिः कोशकृद्वत् ॥१३७॥
137. Identifying the Self with this non-Self—this is the
bondage of man, which is due to his ignorance, and brings
in its train the miseries of birth and death. It is through
this that one considers this evanescent body as real, and
identifying oneself with it, nourishes, bathes, I and preserves
it by means of (agreeable) sense-objects, 2 by which he
becomes bound as the caterpillar by the threads of its
cocoon.
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51
[1 Bathes - Keeps clean and tidy.
2 Sense-objects etc. - He runs after sense-pleasures, thinking that will
conduce to the well-being of the body, but these in turn throw him into
a terrible bondage, and he has to abjure them wholly to attain his freedom,
as the caterpillar has to cut through its cocoon.]
अतस्मिंस्तद्बुद्धिः प्रभवति विमूढस्य तमसा
विवेकाभावाद्वै स्फुरति भुजगे रज्जुधिषणा ।
ततोऽनर्थव्रातो निपतति समादातुरधिक-
स्ततो योऽसद्ग्राहः स हि भवति बन्धः
शृणु सखे ॥ १३८ ।
of Samsara whose waves are birth and death, and firmly
established2 in Brahman as thy own essence, be blessed.
[1With Ib-Instead of with the gross, subtle, and causal bodics. in
Established etc.-By our very nature we are ever identified with
Brahman, but through ignorance we think we are limited and so forth.]
अत्रानात्मन्यहमिति मतिर्बन्ध एषोऽस्य पुंसः
प्राप्तोऽज्ञानाज्जननमरणक्लेशसंपातहेतुः ।
येनैवायं वपुरिदमसत्सत्यमित्यात्मबुद्धया
पुष्यत्युक्षत्यवति विषयैस्तन्तुभिः कोशकृद्वत् ॥१३७॥
137. Identifying the Self with this non-Self—this is the
bondage of man, which is due to his ignorance, and brings
in its train the miseries of birth and death. It is through
this that one considers this evanescent body as real, and
identifying oneself with it, nourishes, bathes, I and preserves
it by means of (agreeable) sense-objects, 2 by which he
becomes bound as the caterpillar by the threads of its
cocoon.
1
51
[1 Bathes - Keeps clean and tidy.
2 Sense-objects etc. - He runs after sense-pleasures, thinking that will
conduce to the well-being of the body, but these in turn throw him into
a terrible bondage, and he has to abjure them wholly to attain his freedom,
as the caterpillar has to cut through its cocoon.]
अतस्मिंस्तद्बुद्धिः प्रभवति विमूढस्य तमसा
विवेकाभावाद्वै स्फुरति भुजगे रज्जुधिषणा ।
ततोऽनर्थव्रातो निपतति समादातुरधिक-
स्ततो योऽसद्ग्राहः स हि भवति बन्धः
शृणु सखे ॥ १३८ ।